There are more old drunkards than old doctors.

I believe there is one Supreme most perfect being. [...] I believe He is pleased and delights in the happiness of those He has created; and since without virtue man can have no happiness in this world, I firmly believe He delights to see me virtuous.

I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.

Genius is the ability to hold one's vision steady until it becomes reality

Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure; nothing more bondage than too much liberty.

He that won't be counseled can't be helped. He that would have a short Lent, let him borrow Money to be repaid at Easter.

It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be much less frequent.